212 pages illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203).
Summary
Uses the explorers' own accounts of a lonely and terrifying search for the fabled land of Timbuctoo. For centuries the Western world half believed but fully reveled in tales of a fabled city buried somewhere in the heart of Africa. Those who struggled to reach it across the world's most terrible desert form a band of forgotten men who endured more hardship and suffering than many other explorers.
